We used to go to movies to see stories about ourselves. It would transport us to new worlds and we'd see aspects… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Historically, for a stop-motion film, you gathered the crew together, you made the movie, and then everyone ran screaming to the next… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Portland doesn't have the same kind of infrastructure that the national film hubs have. We struggle with that a little bit. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the goal is to be on an annual cycle - releasing a film every year. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
I take a firm stand against sequels. My industry brethren are a little shocked at how firmly I'm committed to not doing… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Laika's films aim to promote thought, feeling, and connectivity through art, inspired by our shared humanity. We're deeply gratified that the spirit… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That's… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
You see it in the stuff I've done at Laika: I've always tried to make movies that have an artful blend of… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Sometimes the theme of the film is something that comes down to the way you designed the film - that you're saying… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief. — Travis Knight Copy Share
Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world. — Travis Knight Copy Share
If you look at 'Coraline' and you look at 'ParaNorman' certainly you can tell that there are threads of the same DNA between those… — Travis Knight Copy Share
I fully believe that representation and inclusion matters... and that's why on all of our films, we've featured diverse casts, and that actually is… — Travis Knight Copy Share
I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a… — Travis Knight Copy Share
When you think of the warm grandmotherly type of character, you don't think of Elaine Stritch. — Travis Knight Copy Share
When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because… — Travis Knight Copy Share
When you look back over 100 years when stop-motion was really at the dawn of cinema, a lot of the ways it developed was… — Travis Knight Copy Share
This medium of stop-motion, it can be much more than it's been kind of defined as - it's not just a creaky and anachronistic… — Travis Knight Copy Share
I think there's an unfortunate thing where a lot of content geared towards kids and families is watered down, dumbed down. — Travis Knight Copy Share
People have been declaring stop-motion dead for a generation. But living in the digital age, people appreciate the art of craft, or working with… — Travis Knight Copy Share
I won't say which one, but one shot on 'Kubo' took two months to get the expression right. It's ridiculous on some level. — Travis Knight Copy Share
If you go back and look at those films, movies like 'Bambi' and 'Pinocchio,' there are elements that are incredibly dark. Yet no one… — Travis Knight Copy Share
